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How immigration status silences witnesses to injustice

I documented police misconduct at a protest but turning it in means testifying and I'm undocumented so any courthouse appearance could lead to deportation.

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Your ability to speak truth to power is constrained by your precarious legal existence, creating a cruel irony where those who most need protection cannot safely seek it.

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